"Part of me wishes this notebook was fueled by the Athlon64 rather than the Athlon XP-M chip because, like with the car, I want ultimate performance--but then I take one look at the machine's lustrous coat, and somehow everything else seems trivial"
So basically, because it's red and shiny, it's great? It's heavy, it gets bad battery life, and man, it really actually looks ugly when it's open. Sorry. But hey, the guy also owns a Ferrari watch... there's nothing classier than that.
Dude, Indian cities are NOT expensive compared to US Cities.
I live in Manhattan, probably in the top 3 of most expensive places in the world. A small little 350sq ft apartment on the island of Manhattan is over USD$1500 a month. I'm paying USD$1800 a month for my 750sqft 1 bedroom and I'm not even IN Manhattan (although I'm very very close.)
It makes me cry when I see people paying > $500 for a 1500 sqft place. That'd be easily over USD$3000 in Manhattan.
ok I call your ass on the carpet. tell me ONE thing that OSX can do that linux cant.
Easy: Open a complex Microsoft Office document and not lose any layout settings because of conversion issues...
Well that's one. Let me give you a few others:
-Real world page layout (quarkxpress, indesign) -Photoshop (CMYK) editing -Real time video editing/post production work of HD streams across ANY IEEE1394 video device. -Wake up from sleep in less than a second -Connectivity to a Microsoft Exchange Server -Actually play Warcraft 3 (and sign up for the worlds of warcraft beta test!) (and no, buying WineX and dealing with the emulation layer isn't good enough)
I can go on and on (like professional MIDI software for musicians) but I just remembered you asked for one thing "OSX can do that linux cant."
Now sure, I can't run it on my Lego Mindstorm, but I think the stuff I listed is a little more important. and with my hardware accelerated X11 server, I can do alot of the stuff that you linux guys can do too.
You want this. It's great for handling multiple video cables and audio cables. I've had others, but this one does component, ethernet and optical audio too! It's really great (unless your tv has 7 video inputs already that is!)
Also, get yourself a wireless controller for all your consoles, and get a nice cabinent that holds them all, so all the cables would go behind the wall unit. My set up is surprisingly clean, even though I have 3 consoles, a dvd player, a audio reciever and a computer... even the girlfriend approves! (as long as she gets to play monkey ball)
Hi, i know this is sorta offtopic offtopic but it's related to AT&T Wireless customer service and perhaps some slashdotter can help me out.
I had an AT&T Wireless account about three years ago and closed it in 2001. There were some issues with my early termination, and I didn't get any invoices until it was already really "past due" I paid it immediately and that was the end of it.
It showed up on my credit report in May of this year, nearly 2 years later. Now, I have no problem with that, but it showed up with NO date of last activity, no date account closed, nothing... so it looks like just happened. Worse yet, with no date of last activity, it will NEVER come off according to Equifax.
I mailed and faxed their Credit Investigations Team and they have ignored ALL my communications. I know they got them because I sent the stuff certified return reciept. I also called the three reporting agencies and they validated that the "Date of Last Activity" and "Date Closed" are both blank... which is obviously wrong!
AT&T has ignored my requests for validation, ignored my requests to post the correct information... i even sent them copies of the cashed checks they recieved over two years ago!
So what now... anyone at AT&T wireless (who reads slashdot) know how I can contact them? They don't respond to any snail mail or faxes...
Please email me at nick@vninteractive.com if you can help...
Thanks a bunch... and sorry for this offtopic post... It's just AT&T Customer Service really does seem to suck!
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eWorld became a little service called America Online when it merged with the c64 service, Q-Link... See this link for some more info (I can't find any sites online with info.)
It's called "having your server farm in a private subnet not accessible from the Internet." SCO can't figure out what Linux kernel is running on the google farm. Duh.
Not only does DBDesigner4 seem to do everything Data Architect does (cross-platform, SQL generation, importing/exporting from databases), but it's also free.
It's not just "clean up all windows with eye candy". Jeez, are you afraid to even try it?
Clean up all windows ruins your original window layout (because it literally rearranges your windows) Clean up all windows makes all your windows so small (if you have alot of them) that you can't see anything because your web browser is now 100x100 and the scroll bar is taking up all it's space. (it doesn't actually minimize the content of the page) Clean up all windows doesn't let you just click on one of these windows, bring it to forefront and then put everything back exactly as it was.
I've NEVER used clean up all windows because of those pitfalls on ANY os. I use expose' constantly.
Man, you anti-mac-zealots are just as bad as the pro-mac ones. You revel in your ignorance. I was at the apple store playing with the machines and after 5 minutes, I found how expose is more innovative than anything I've seen on any OS lately.
How about looking at it before actually commenting?
That's not true. William Safire, the founding editor of the freaking National Review, is a frequent regular contributor to what many consider the most "liberal" paper in the country, the New York Times.
MSNBC has quite a few conservative pundits, and CNN has quite a few too. A good example of the difference between CNN and Fox News is Crossfire vs Hannity and Colmes.
CNN has smart liberals and conservatives on both sides of Crossfile (Tucker Carlson, Robert Novak on the Right) whereas Fox News has a freaking moron arguing against Sean Hannity. It's literally HANNITY vs colmes. (In fact, when the show was first pitched it was referred to internally as "Hannity vs some wimpy liberal")
Sure, some papers may lean left (like the Washington Post,) but they don't compare to the wacko right wing-ness of papers like the Washington Times.
This bug was found and reported on three days ago. I don't think Apple has issued a statement saying they will or will not release a patch. Everyone seems to be acting like there will be no patch like Apple has issued a statement to that effect.
They seem kinda ridiculous, I don't even know if I believe that they really exist, but they have an option for a multigig ram drive just to store the OS (with nearly zero latency and 80GB/sec IO... yes GB) and a bunch of other stuff.
That Charlie White gets off on doing nothing more than trashing the Mac and he often makes tons of things up...
A real good point, and one to points to the fact that Charlie White stats are COMPLETELY cooked up and fake, is that apparently AMD benchmarked against a SINGLE G5 2Ghz Powermac...
Hmm... Where did the Single 2ghz G5 Powermac come from? We know Apple doesn't make them...
If you're gonna lie, at least do it right. Sigh.
(And another thing, AMD has more credibility than Apple regarding self-reported benchmark scores? There is no reason for that other than bias.)
Well if it makes you feel any better, I think NYC is the only city in America that has a second level domain name under.gov for itself... (ie the official NYC gov web site is nyc.gov).
So yea.. and our MTA (and i'm sure there are a ton of organizations called MTAs) is just mta.info:)
Now I know this post will not be read by many because it's a late one in 500+ comments, and lemme preface by sayign I love Apple... but...
Why does apple license some ridiculous "technologies and patents" like 1-click shopping from Amazon and then at the same time not bother to plunk down the small amount (i'm sure it is for a company the size of apple) of change to officially get their OS UNIX certified?
I mean, it should meet the open group's standards, right? My concern is apple might not think it will meet TOG's standards and they'd rather not risk it. (eitherwise, they'd just pay for it like they did with 1-click)
You're right.. the GBA is a BIG "let's re release games to a portable platform from our glory days" type of platform. But if you want an innovate, completely different type of game for the GBA, check out Wario Ware.... it's awesome. And, it's like nothing you've seen before.
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Does iPod have FM out to my car stereo?
Not standard, but for about $35 you can buy a slick solution that lets you broadcast your ipod to FM frequencies (and it looks like it was made just for the ipod, well because it was...) Check that out here.
Does IPOD have line-in based recording?
Actually, not yet... but if you did any research you'd see that people found in the firmware the ability to activate ipod recording. Read about it here
Oh, and best yet... it's still an ipod. Slick UI, really light and small and it gets the job done better than any other mp3 player. It's been 2 years and nobody has caught up yet!
What's so wonderful about the NYT ads system?? I think it sucks if you ask me. Just another waste of MY bandwidth and MY time.
Wait wait wait.... you're getting the entire New York Times for free, content that is produced by 100s of reporters across 100s of international bureaus creating a literal 3 pound sunday edition and 200 page (if converted to magazine text) paper EVERY day for free. The Times is providing this service at a ridiculous cost (server, bandwidth and IT costs) and you're complaining about YOUR time and YOUR bandwidth being wasted?
I'm sorry if the 80k flash files and the.04 milliseconds it takes to close them is a complete waste of your time and bandwidth. I guess everything should be free huh?
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So basically, because it's red and shiny, it's great? It's heavy, it gets bad battery life, and man, it really actually looks ugly when it's open. Sorry. But hey, the guy also owns a Ferrari watch... there's nothing classier than that.
Dude, Indian cities are NOT expensive compared to US Cities.
I live in Manhattan, probably in the top 3 of most expensive places in the world. A small little 350sq ft apartment on the island of Manhattan is over USD$1500 a month. I'm paying USD$1800 a month for my 750sqft 1 bedroom and I'm not even IN Manhattan (although I'm very very close.)
It makes me cry when I see people paying > $500 for a 1500 sqft place. That'd be easily over USD$3000 in Manhattan.
Sorry, just had to vent.
ok I call your ass on the carpet. tell me ONE thing that OSX can do that linux cant.
Easy: Open a complex Microsoft Office document and not lose any layout settings because of conversion issues...
Well that's one. Let me give you a few others:
-Real world page layout (quarkxpress, indesign)
-Photoshop (CMYK) editing
-Real time video editing/post production work of HD streams across ANY IEEE1394 video device.
-Wake up from sleep in less than a second
-Connectivity to a Microsoft Exchange Server
-Actually play Warcraft 3 (and sign up for the worlds of warcraft beta test!) (and no, buying WineX and dealing with the emulation layer isn't good enough)
I can go on and on (like professional MIDI software for musicians) but I just remembered you asked for one thing "OSX can do that linux cant."
Now sure, I can't run it on my Lego Mindstorm, but I think the stuff I listed is a little more important. and with my hardware accelerated X11 server, I can do alot of the stuff that you linux guys can do too.
You want this. It's great for handling multiple video cables and audio cables. I've had others, but this one does component, ethernet and optical audio too! It's really great (unless your tv has 7 video inputs already that is!)
Also, get yourself a wireless controller for all your consoles, and get a nice cabinent that holds them all, so all the cables would go behind the wall unit. My set up is surprisingly clean, even though I have 3 consoles, a dvd player, a audio reciever and a computer... even the girlfriend approves! (as long as she gets to play monkey ball)
Hi, i know this is sorta offtopic offtopic but it's related to AT&T Wireless customer service and perhaps some slashdotter can help me out.
I had an AT&T Wireless account about three years ago and closed it in 2001. There were some issues with my early termination, and I didn't get any invoices until it was already really "past due" I paid it immediately and that was the end of it.
It showed up on my credit report in May of this year, nearly 2 years later. Now, I have no problem with that, but it showed up with NO date of last activity, no date account closed, nothing... so it looks like just happened. Worse yet, with no date of last activity, it will NEVER come off according to Equifax.
I mailed and faxed their Credit Investigations Team and they have ignored ALL my communications. I know they got them because I sent the stuff certified return reciept. I also called the three reporting agencies and they validated that the "Date of Last Activity" and "Date Closed" are both blank... which is obviously wrong!
AT&T has ignored my requests for validation, ignored my requests to post the correct information... i even sent them copies of the cashed checks they recieved over two years ago!
So what now... anyone at AT&T wireless (who reads slashdot) know how I can contact them? They don't respond to any snail mail or faxes...
Please email me at nick@vninteractive.com if you can help...
Thanks a bunch... and sorry for this offtopic post... It's just AT&T Customer Service really does seem to suck!
eWorld became a little service called America Online when it merged with the c64 service, Q-Link... See this link for some more info (I can't find any sites online with info.)
So yea, I wouldn't call eWorld a failure...
NCompass was bought by Microsoft awhile ago. In fact, NCompass Resolution is basically Microsoft Content Mangement System.
Go to ncompass.com yourself...
It's called "nmap"
It's called "having your server farm in a private subnet not accessible from the Internet." SCO can't figure out what Linux kernel is running on the google farm. Duh.
Not only does DBDesigner4 seem to do everything Data Architect does (cross-platform, SQL generation, importing/exporting from databases), but it's also free.
And it's prettier too.
It's not just "clean up all windows with eye candy". Jeez, are you afraid to even try it?
Clean up all windows ruins your original window layout (because it literally rearranges your windows) Clean up all windows makes all your windows so small (if you have alot of them) that you can't see anything because your web browser is now 100x100 and the scroll bar is taking up all it's space. (it doesn't actually minimize the content of the page) Clean up all windows doesn't let you just click on one of these windows, bring it to forefront and then put everything back exactly as it was.
I've NEVER used clean up all windows because of those pitfalls on ANY os. I use expose' constantly.
Man, you anti-mac-zealots are just as bad as the pro-mac ones. You revel in your ignorance. I was at the apple store playing with the machines and after 5 minutes, I found how expose is more innovative than anything I've seen on any OS lately.
How about looking at it before actually commenting?
That's not true. William Safire, the founding editor of the freaking National Review, is a frequent regular contributor to what many consider the most "liberal" paper in the country, the New York Times.
MSNBC has quite a few conservative pundits, and CNN has quite a few too. A good example of the difference between CNN and Fox News is Crossfire vs Hannity and Colmes.
CNN has smart liberals and conservatives on both sides of Crossfile (Tucker Carlson, Robert Novak on the Right) whereas Fox News has a freaking moron arguing against Sean Hannity. It's literally HANNITY vs colmes. (In fact, when the show was first pitched it was referred to internally as "Hannity vs some wimpy liberal")
Sure, some papers may lean left (like the Washington Post,) but they don't compare to the wacko right wing-ness of papers like the Washington Times.
This bug was found and reported on three days ago. I don't think Apple has issued a statement saying they will or will not release a patch. Everyone seems to be acting like there will be no patch like Apple has issued a statement to that effect.
Let's not get too pissy yet.
I got dogtags at SoHo... there was this cute girl giving them out all around the store.
They seem kinda ridiculous, I don't even know if I believe that they really exist, but they have an option for a multigig ram drive just to store the OS (with nearly zero latency and 80GB/sec IO... yes GB) and a bunch of other stuff.
Their monitors look killer too...
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You're an idiot.
Apple "DOS"?
Both machines are UNIX. (then again, the dell cluster might be windows, and then you transposed the two command prompt examples.)
Holy shit, your "laptop" weighs 12 pounds and is 2 inches thick!!!!
That's not a freaking laptop! It's a freaking desktop, LITERALLY! No wonder the weight/size specs are buried 3 pages deep way down in a chart here.
There is NO MENTION of battery life. What does it get? 15 minutes?
Meanwhile the powerbook 15" weighs less than 6 pounds, and is an inch thick.
Do you walk with your laptop?
Here is a list of DVD machines that play divx files.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win"
Let's hope that's the case here too. Hey, he could beat the UK, MS can't be that much harder... right?
That Charlie White gets off on doing nothing more than trashing the Mac and he often makes tons of things up...
A real good point, and one to points to the fact that Charlie White stats are COMPLETELY cooked up and fake, is that apparently AMD benchmarked against a SINGLE G5 2Ghz Powermac...
Hmm... Where did the Single 2ghz G5 Powermac come from? We know Apple doesn't make them...
If you're gonna lie, at least do it right. Sigh.
(And another thing, AMD has more credibility than Apple regarding self-reported benchmark scores? There is no reason for that other than bias.)
Well if it makes you feel any better, I think NYC is the only city in America that has a second level domain name under .gov for itself... (ie the official NYC gov web site is nyc.gov).
:)
So yea.. and our MTA (and i'm sure there are a ton of organizations called MTAs) is just mta.info
Now I know this post will not be read by many because it's a late one in 500+ comments, and lemme preface by sayign I love Apple... but...
Why does apple license some ridiculous "technologies and patents" like 1-click shopping from Amazon and then at the same time not bother to plunk down the small amount (i'm sure it is for a company the size of apple) of change to officially get their OS UNIX certified?
I mean, it should meet the open group's standards, right? My concern is apple might not think it will meet TOG's standards and they'd rather not risk it. (eitherwise, they'd just pay for it like they did with 1-click)
You're right.. the GBA is a BIG "let's re release games to a portable platform from our glory days" type of platform. But if you want an innovate, completely different type of game for the GBA, check out Wario Ware.... it's awesome. And, it's like nothing you've seen before.
Does iPod have FM out to my car stereo?
Not standard, but for about $35 you can buy a slick solution that lets you broadcast your ipod to FM frequencies (and it looks like it was made just for the ipod, well because it was...) Check that out here.
Does IPOD have line-in based recording?
Actually, not yet... but if you did any research you'd see that people found in the firmware the ability to activate ipod recording. Read about it here
Oh, and best yet... it's still an ipod. Slick UI, really light and small and it gets the job done better than any other mp3 player. It's been 2 years and nobody has caught up yet!
that eReader plus is huge.... wow... it's like twice the size of the GBA.
What's so wonderful about the NYT ads system??
.04 milliseconds it takes to close them is a complete waste of your time and bandwidth. I guess everything should be free huh?
I think it sucks if you ask me. Just another waste of MY bandwidth and MY time.
Wait wait wait.... you're getting the entire New York Times for free, content that is produced by 100s of reporters across 100s of international bureaus creating a literal 3 pound sunday edition and 200 page (if converted to magazine text) paper EVERY day for free. The Times is providing this service at a ridiculous cost (server, bandwidth and IT costs) and you're complaining about YOUR time and YOUR bandwidth being wasted?
I'm sorry if the 80k flash files and the